In Praise of
BASIC,
a piece I wrote on the cultural impact of one of the world’s most
maligned programming languages, yet one of the most influential. This
is the first in a series I will call the Dead Standards Society,
paying homage to standards and quasi-standards that are now
defunct/obsolete but without which important milestones in the
computing revolution would not have happened.
I periodically host groups of Berkeley CS
Scholars on a trip to the
awesome Computer History Museum. This
is
the handout I
created to accompany the visit. I’m hoping to eventually create a full
online “course” on this topic that also serves as a self-guidable CHM
tour.
Computing History Films
Mastergeek
Theater,
an infrequently-updated list of the best full-length and short-feature
movies/documentaries about computing history
My YouTube computing history
playlist includes
some of the Mastergeek Theater content, plus many great short films
about computer history